On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 08:43 -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > What do you think of LVM? Is it stable and reliable > enough to use for a backup repository? >
What kind of repo do you mean? A debian repo? At any rate, The companies I have worked for have been using LVM for years (knowingly and sometimes unknowingly ;-) and the LVM tech was never the issue. If there was an issue, it usually was something with the file system on top of it, but never the LVM bit. Seriously, this technology is rock solid. Production ready, much more so then say... Veritas backup exec, or something like it ;-) > I have several 250GB drives I am thinking of using for > backup but administering the assignment of data to > drives would be a headache. I am thinking that LVM > might solve that by letting me make one big dataspace. Makes sense. How many are there? Is it worth putting your backup process as a drbd set? (Network Raid) so you can install some HA for your backup? That way you could install two identical servers, one master the other slave. drbd would keep everything synched, you have *less* chance of losing your disk based backups. May I also ask what it is your backing up? I could be of more help when we know more of what you are trying to backup. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
